What book are you reading right now?

[casperreaves]

Og Mandino "The Greatest Miracle in the World"--For a Meetup book group in the Los Angeles Area.

John Maxwell "Developing the Leaders Around You"--for my main focus at work

[timeineternity]

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil

[JadeScholar]

Sensory Perceptual Issues in Autism and Asperger Syndrome: Different Sensory Experiences, Different Perceptual Worlds by Olga Bogdashina.

[Naiha]

Beyond Good and Evil, by Friedrich Nietszche

[Nostalgia]

Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community by Wendell Berry

[Sonntag]

House Rules - Jodi Picoult
Don't be scared of Statistics - Markus Oestreich, Oliver Romberg

[kasthu]

Re-reading my way through a childhood favorite--actually favorites, because it's the Anne of Green Gables series; Anne's an INFP if ever there was one...

[casperreaves]

Sonntag:

Do you recommend this for book for someone with a good math background?

Don't be scared of Statistics - Markus Oestreich, Oliver Romberg

Thanks.
Casper

[Subtle]

The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution - Richard Dawkins

[Zenettii]

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.) - Susan Cain
&
Learning Python (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.) - Mark Lutz: Computer programming

[LadySpock]

Enclave: A Novel of the Zombie Apocalypse

It is THE BOMB

[Othesemo]

The Last Temptation of Christ

[akairo no kuma]

"Good Omens" by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. I am enjoying it profusely. :)

[vitrvianmn]

Crime and Punishment

book is awesome so far. raskolnikovs psyche after the murder is utterly real and human. mania to depression. freedom to feeling trapped. :D

[DarkPassenger]

The Sea Wolf - Jack London

[WillBrazil]

A Viagem do Elefante, by José Saramago To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

[Artio]

Angela Carter - Heroes and Villains

[Raeki]

The System of the World - Neal Stephenson

[Odyne]

Human Dignity, by George Kateb

[CakeZ]

Looking for Alaska
and
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

[Nostalgia]

The Laws of Thermodynamics: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Atkins
(yeah I know, I am such a noob.) :laugh:


also trying to finish

Hell's Gate: The Battle of the Cherkassy Pocket, January-February 1944 by Douglas E. Nash

[Midhiel]

Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse

[timeineternity]

Joseph Campbell - The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Ecce Homo
The Gospel of St. John

[Mari]

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, a big book of poetry by Tagore, and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.

[Vox]

11/22/63, by Stephen King.

[OwenF]

His Master's Voice, Stanislaw Lem

[thebrainpolice]

This Mighty Scourge, James McPherson

[Coralaisly]

Finishing the first fairy tale in the Grimm's Fairy Tales book I just got. Fell asleep while reading it. Might just have to be a new habit =^_^=

[alt lit]

The Russia House by John Le Carré

[CRIM]

The Stand by Stephen King

[s4nder]

"Empire of Light," Gary Gibson.

[JadeScholar]

Island of the Sequined Love Nun by Christopher Moore

[Artio]

William T. Vollmann - Whores for Gloria

[DarkPassenger]

Just finished Call of the Wild - Jack London.

Not sure what I'll read next.

[Nadette]

Just started "Crash" by J.G. Ballard. I was reading it on the subway and it was kind of awkward because I kept grimacing...

[Artio]

grape juice

[DarkPassenger]

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

[John01]

grape juice
Are you reading the label?


A Storm of Swords - George R.R. Martin

[Megalomania]

The autobiography of Teddy Roosevelt
Egil's Saga

[SimplyOtter]

A Midsummer Night's Dream - W.Shakespeare

[JadeScholar]

Broadmoor Revealed: Victorian Crime and the Lunitic Asylum by Mark Stevens

[warweasel]

Finished American Gods by Neil Gaiman. 40 pgs from finishing The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham. Next in the queue The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer & House Divided by Ben ames Williams...

[jenuwin]

I'm trying to read Tess of the D'urbervilles. Couldn't get through the first page last night. Will try it again sometime when I'm more energized...

[n8ey]

Robopocalypse... It's... Meh.

[vermeer]

The Time Machine, H.G. Wells

[teraczy]

The Hobbit :laugh:

[lifesight]

recently finished "the longing of Shiina Ryo"

[wrongjargon]

Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman. I'm hoping I have a better appreciation for it the second time around.

[sisats]

Dresden Files

[MacheteGeek]

HAM Technician manual. zzz

[Kricket]

Small Gods, Terry Pratchett.

[ctiquila]

The Good Earth, Pearl S Buck

[MortalWombat]

The Seven Days of Peter Crumb - Jonny Glynn

I must admit, I don't really favor this book. But I'll finish it.

[alt lit]

Laying Ways Texts and Pre-Texts by Mechthild Cranston

An obscure but so far enjoyable collection, especially if you're inclined to Objectivist-influenced poets.

[Prometheus13]

The Crippled God – Steven Erikson

[WillBrazil]

Darkly Dreaming Dexter, by Jeff Lindsay.
Awesome! Read it, guys!

Quran, by Mohammed (?)
Reading for knowledge.

[Rationality]

Frequency, by Penney Peirce

[Othesemo]

The Last Days of Socrates, including Euthyphro, The Apology, Crito, and Phaedo (plus editor's notes).

[KonTiki]

"Two years before the mast" by Dana.

It's nonfiction. In the 1830's, a young man studying at Harvard develops an eye condition, and to allow his eyes to recover he signs on to crew for a merchant ship headed to California, then still Mexican territory.

[timeineternity]

Arthur Rimbaud - Rimbaud: Complete Works, a Bilingual Edition (W. Fowlie, translator)

[Kisai]

I am on the last 200 pages of A Dance of Dragons and I am reminded how much I hate being left in the lurch without another installment of story.

[MortalWombat]

Everything Lovely, Effortless, Safe by Jenny Hollowell

[Fujimoto]

Why We Get Fat (And What To Do About It) - Gary Taubes

[TheStranger]

Summer for the Gods-Edward J. Larson.

[Bardas]

Embassytown - China Mieville

[MortalWombat]

Paper Towns - John Green

[dontmesswithme]

Alice Munro--"Selected Stories".

[MortalWombat]

Will Grayson, Will Grayson, a collaboration by authors John Green & David Levithan

[havingabubble]

I have read that one half a dozen times as well. It's a good one. Also, The Fountainhead.

You can't be serious.


I Married A Communist, Philip Roth

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BLOOD, STEEL, AND MYTH: The II.SS-Panzer-Korps and the Road to Prochorowka by George Nipe Jr.

That sounds really interesting, can you rate it for me once you've finished it? Also, can you tell me what his writing style is like?

---------- Post added 05-26-2012 at 04:00 PM ----------

Crime and Punishment

book is awesome so far. raskolnikovs psyche after the murder is utterly real and human. mania to depression. freedom to feeling trapped. :D

gotta love the Russians..

---------- Post added 05-26-2012 at 04:03 PM ----------

The Last Days of Socrates, including Euthyphro, The Apology, Crito, and Phaedo (plus editor's notes).

Cool

[spect]

kaczynski - the industrial society and its future (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

[RexFlammae]

The Culture of Narcissism by Christopher Lasch

[RAZR]

What Every Body Is Saying - Joe Navarro
A Rumor of War - Phil Caputo

[TheStranger]

Cloning-Aaron D. Levine

[MortalWombat]

Tall Ships: History, Legends, & Legacies by Kathleen Murphy Colan

[Eridal]

Critical Chain by Eliyahu Goldratt

[DarkPassenger]

Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë

and

The Time Machine - H.G. Wells

[MortalWombat]

Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman.

[OwenF]

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood, by James Gleick

[Dull Spoon]

I am reading the ingredients in my shampoo, then I will cross reference with the ingredients of my other shampoos. After that I will probably read the ingredients in my toothpaste and cross ref. Read, compare, repeat.

[vampyroteuthis]

I am reading the ingredients in my shampoo, then I will cross reference with the ingredients of my other shampoos. After that I will probably read the ingredients in my toothpaste and cross ref. Read, compare, repeat.

Why?

[Kricket]

More Pratchett: I Shall Wear Midnight

[Dull Spoon]

Why?

Why, why?! Because they have words on them, and I was cleaning the bathroom and got distracted. I'll read anything in front of me. Sticking to books though, I'm re-reading the Iliad.

[pawn23]

Pygmy by Chuck Palanhnicuk

[Archer]

Quiet - The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
by Susan Cain

[MortalWombat]

The Fault in Our Stars - John Green

[alt lit]

Selected Poems by George Oppen (Ed. Robert Creeley)

[SarcasticVlad]

An Elegant Universe - Brian Greene

It's so well written, even a complete amateur should be able to understand.

[Ninetime]

The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova

[teraczy]

The Anomalies

[porousshield]

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell and the Canterbury Tales.

[Tito]

Unfortunately, I'm not reading anything right now. It is rather horrible, now that I think about it.

I guess this means that I'm going to the bookstore before the weekend arrives.

[Nadette]

A biography of Bakunin by mark leier

[T1000]

Ongoing reading 1Q84, by Haruki Murakami, it's so long...

Just finished Outlander, by Diana Gabaldon

[blackbangs]

Reading Super Freakonomics (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.) for the nth time.

[Artio]

The Undiscovered Self by C.G. Jung

and

Please Understand Me by Keirsey & Bates

[s4nder]

"Calculating God," Robert J. Sawyer.

[n8ey]

The Silmarillion, by J.R.R. Tolkien.

[Nostalgia]

That sounds really interesting, can you rate it for me once you've finished it? Also, can you tell me what his writing style is like?




There are already few really well written and comprehensive reviews of the book HERE (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.) on amazon. It is an extremely detail oriented book, as the title stated , this book is about Operation Citadel (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.), its main focus lies in the south salient of the battle, which is mainly carried out by the II SS Panzer Corps. The book contains many detailed accounts of the daily engagements, including the actions of individual soldiers, the likes of Joachim Peiper, Michael Wittmann and few other quite famous Panzer Ace/Commanders. I have been reading books on the eastern front for few years now, it is a special area of interest for me. I would recommend the book to anyone who is serious about developing an indepth understanding of the eastern front, this type of readings can pose a challenge, if you are new to the subject matter. But as long as it sparks your interest, then nothing is too much to handle. Cheers and Best of luck in your pursuit of knowledge! :nice:


Currently reading.
Meggs' History of Graphic Design by Philip B. Meggs and Alston W. Purvis

[poisonpinkpony]

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks

[vermeer]

La Vita Nuova by Dante

[ModernLit]

never let me go by ishiguro

[Mari]

The Blind Assassin, by Margaret Atwood. Again.

I'd forgotten how good the love story was. One of the few I like.

[lifesight]

An "Attic" Philosopher (v1), by Emile Souvestre
Notes from the Underground, by Feodor Dostoevsky

[Mari]

The Bluest Eyes, by Toni Morrison.

[codeltaiv]

The Sound and the Fury

[idem]

I've been doing a lot of reading lately.

I just finished:
The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner - Obsessed. I love it so much.
Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood

Currently reading:
The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath

[Mind Marauder]

- Call of Cthulhu and Other Strange Stories.
- The Immortal Game.

[mrStevens]

I was recently on a Murakami kick. Read something like 3 of his books in a row. I stopped in the middle of "A Wild Sheep Chase."

Did anyone else get a little tired of his bragging about having multiple-orgasms?

[Doppelbock]

I'm currently re-reading Fritz Leiber's first "Fafhrd and Gray Mouser" novel for the first time in about 20 years. This is among the best fantasy fiction ever written.

[teraczy]

finished The Anomolies... now gonna return to Bukowski's Notes of a Dirty Old Man

[EchosofChange]

I have three books that I am reading right now.

Type Talk (The 16 personality types) by Otto Kroeger and Janet M. Thuesen

Mozart's Brain and the Fighter Pilot by Richard Restak

The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

[stoopidkitty]

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! - Richard P. Feynman

[kaer]

Zhuangzi Inner Chapters and Outer Chapters

[ModernLit]

I was recently on a Murakami kick. Read something like 3 of his books in a row. I stopped in the middle of "A Wild Sheep Chase."

Did anyone else get a little tired of his bragging about having multiple-orgasms?

he brags about his multiple orgasms?? i did not read that one! i read the one where the boy follows a cat around, and one where the girl falls asleep and ends up in a different dimension. haven't you figured out by now that he's strange? i have yet to delve into IQ84, but soon :)

i'm reading "writers on writing," a collection of essays :)

[bea555]

I just finished Il nome della rosa by U. Eco.


EDIT: basically I enjoyed it but it was way too long and the most interesting part was left at the end (last chapter) so I don't know if I really liked it. 500 pages almost and took me very long to finish it because it was a bit slow...

[dshaw55]

Presently reading:

Three Roads To Quantum Gravity by Lee Smolin
The New Atheism, Taking a Stand for Science and Reason by Victor Stenger
No Gods No Masters, An Anthology of Anarchism - Daniel Guerin

[creamedcorn]

Kreutzer Sonate by Leo Tolstoy. Sucks; Introduction of the arguments of the story first in a philosophical conversation after which transition happens to realization of the ideas of these arguments, rather than letting themes rise from realistic and stimulating scenarios which is a lot less forced. Even in satire the latter approach works for me. Ok it is also possible that the real subject is the person talking, but frankly I couldn't care less for these russian depictions of insane men.
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut. Boring themes, lifeless writing. Dull as hell.

I need to stop reading fiction.

[mrStevens]

he brags about his multiple orgasms?? i did not read that one! i read the one where the boy follows a cat around, and one where the girl falls asleep and ends up in a different dimension. haven't you figured out by now that he's strange? i have yet to delve into IQ84, but soon :)

i'm reading "writers on writing," a collection of essays :)

Ah. I haven't gotten to his new stuff yet.

A Wild Sheep Chase
Norwegian Wood
South of the Border, West of the Sun
Sputnik Sweetheart

Basically he talks about having sex, then a short break, then more sex. I don't really need the additional details.

I was getting a little bored with the format too. Him as the protagonist. Strong female characters with quirky flaws that gravitate towards or around him. Indecision, regret, searching.

[Megalomania]

Plan of Attack by Bob Woodward
Second Treatise of Government by Locke

[vermeer]

"The Origin of the Work of Art" by Martin Heidegger

[deconspire]

Psychotic reations and carburetor dung - lester bangs. Fucking awesome book, best music critic ever.

[MortalWombat]

Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky

[Merle]

A Fire Upon the Deep - Vernor Vinge

and

Writing History, Writing Trauma - Dominick LaCapra

[blackbangs]

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland for math class.

[endless]

Principia Mathematica, after which I'll go back to Bentham and Mill, back up for a bit more Russell and top it off with Tractatus, then I'll read The Gulag Archipelago books 1 - 3.

Then Railsea and The City and the City, been building up to TCaTC for a while now I have high hopes for it.

After that there is no plan.

[Nixy13]

Just finished The Icarus girl, An innocent abroad and The blind Assasin.

Am currently reading: The history of humour and From Prussia with love

Recently I have had the urge to read non-ficition travel stories :)

[MechanicalSun]

The Art of War.- Sun Tzu

[Arbosis]

The Art of Game Design (by Jessy Schell)

Eisenhorn: xenos, malleus, hereticus (by Dan Abnett)

[Merle]

Heliotrope - Justina Robson

and

a journal article: "The Location of Literature: The Transnational Book and the Migrant Writer" - Rebecca Walkowitz

[Zarkai]

I finally just picked up War and Peace. pretty stoked

[Shinganist]

Hagakure

[Rovin]

Right now I'm trying to read Peter Straub's GHOST STORY for about the fourth time in the last decade. I've never finished it not because I dislike it, but because for whatever reason I inevitably seemed to get interrupted from it whenever I WAS reading it.

[idem]

I just finished:
Jailbird, by Kurt Vonnegut
The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde - Utterly hilarious.

Currently reading:
Absalom, Absalom!, by William Faulkner

[warweasel]

House Divided by Ben Ames Williams.

[Majom]

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

[NiTe Visor]

Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre
Space Chronicles by Neil deGrasse Tyson
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Republic by Plato
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

I'm somewhere in the middle of all of these. Unfortunately im a slow reader cuz I cant sit still long enough to read more than like 20 pages in one sitting.

[Capita18]

The Day of the Triffids by John Windham

[synagogue]

bits and pieces of William James's Principles of Psychology, at the moment. Probably about 10-15 others as well, on and off.

Okay, probably about 100, but I'm trying to focus it down.

[tenken]

Just finished Albert Camus "The Stranger".

[Winklepicker]

"Safe in the Father's Arms"

[Eves]

Germ by Robert Liparulo. The library classifies it as a biological thriller, re-reading it as I wait for new books.

[Saggita]

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.

Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth are like two eight years old. Merlin help me. *facepalm*

[Autumnleaf]

I'm starting Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

[La Comtesse]

Gone with the Wind

[Merle]

Falling Man - Don DeLillo

[timeineternity]

Fred Nietzsche - The Will to Power
Al Camus - The Plague

[FarmlandTension]

A Feast for Crows

[Nietzsche]

New Essays on Human Understanding by Leibniz.

[awalkingcliche]

Currently reading Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, it's lovely. IMO all Russian literature is lovely (:

[Merle]

The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid

[charleshudgen]

I am currently working on The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis. This might be worth a look if anybody knows or could recall the movie. It's a very good book and calm book. Many little details in the book found their way into the movie, but they are still quite different in some other things.

[idem]

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, by Robert Heinlein

[Kricket]

Just about to sit down and start Pyramids. It's another Pratchett. I am nothing if not consistent.

[Merle]

I am currently working on The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis. This might be worth a look if anybody knows or could recall the movie. It's a very good book and calm book. Many little details in the book found their way into the movie, but they are still quite different in some other things.

I LOVE Walter Tevis. Mockingbird is another amazing SF book of his which I would recommend to anyone!

I like how you describe The Man Who Fell to Earth as calm :) his style is very un-intrusive and there is a real sense of a gentle and patient mind behind the writing.

[IngsocDisciple]

Final Justice-W.E.B. Griffin
Megiddo-Paul Crouch

[Dancingqueen]

Saul Bellow-More Die of Heartbreak

[Samoan Corleone]

Just started The Big Sleep, because I want to read it before I see the movie.

[idem]

On the Road, by Jack Kerouac

[Jill Hives]

Recently reread all of The Sandman graphic novels, and now I have finally started The Wheel Of Time series by Robert Jordan. Halfway through The Eye Of The World. It took me a while to get into it, but now I am enjoying it more.

[Merle]

Let the Great World Spin - Collum McCann

[admittedheretic]

Neil Fiore - The Now Habit

[ModernLit]

moonlight mile by dennis lehane

[warweasel]

Still reading House Divided by Ben Ames Williams. One of the characters seems to be very INTJ-ish...

[Andre20]

The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell

[Istalri]

His Dark Materials Series by Philip Pullman. One of my favorite series of books ever (and it has some darn good competition).

[jammi]

None. I don't like reading from paper and I use my e-books as technical reference guides, which is what they are.

[Doppelbock]

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, by Robert Heinlein

BEST. BOOK. EVER. I think it would make an awesome movie, too.

I'm currently reading "Penrod" by Booth Tarkington. A classic.

[idem]

BEST. BOOK. EVER. I think it would make an awesome movie, too.


I liked it! Although I found Mannie himself strangely ... uninspiring. I've also been meaning to get around to Stranger in a Strange Land.

[Nadette]

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

Gosh, it is massive, but a friend wanted me to read it with her so that we could discuss. How could I refuse?

[dontmesswithme]

"Leonard Maltin's 2012 Movie Guide", by Rex Reed.

[teraczy]

Deadeye Dick

[peppersasen]

Revisiting the Somalia chapter of United Nations: The First Fifty Years by Stanley Meisler: To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. :blank:

it's my guilty pleasure. it's like reading a gossip column about old people/bureaucrats/politicians. the book can be quite comical if you're dark, especially the descriptions of all the "characters" and their actions, decisions, motivations. i mean, i know to take armed conflict seriously, it's no laughing matter, soldiers who can't choose their battles and civilians died.

but politicians/diplomats/warlords are funny characters, you can't even make that shit up. my favorite bits:
Ambassador Albright insisted that the Somalia intervention had not been a failure. The UN, she said, had "saved thousands of lives... from starvation".
i don't know why i imagined this bit being said in a very matter-of-fact, business-as-usual tone:
By then, Howe had left Somalia, and Aideed had long since returned to public life, holding news conferences, issuing threats, still plotting an ascent to power.
meh. i read that while waiting at a cafe. i hate cracking up in public places... i decided to also revisit the first chapter (which is also pretty comical).

---------- Post added 07-03-2012 at 04:27 AM ----------

I think I should also add that I spent much of my childhood/teens in a former military dictatorship, where they would screen propaganda videos at school. So history books like this, which I asked my father to bring me from overseas, are such a treat... :wacky: I know it sounds creepy, but it was a normal life.

[idem]

Lolita, by Nabokov. It is so, so good.

[Megalomania]

Munich 1938 by David Faber. It focuses on the diplomacy between England and Germany in 1938. It would have been nicer to have some insight into the diplomacy going on between the French, English and Germans. Neville Chamberlain definitely isn't portrayed in a positive light.

[Merle]

The Groom to Have Been - Saher Alam

[ipmendy77]

Just finished 'Brothers to the Death' by Darren Shan
Halfway through 'Hell's Horizon' By Darren Shan

[idem]

Going Postal, Terry Pratchett

[Calica]

Switching between:
Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan~ Shadows of forgotten ancestors
Anne & Todd McCaffrey ~ Dragon`s fire

and the last chapters of Douglas Adams~ The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy.

[Carinthian]

William Gibson's Neuromancer

[lifesight]

(la vie devant soi) The life before us-Romain Gary

[ModernLit]

death of a salesman -miller

[PRBori]

Reporting on Controls at a Service Organization Relevant to Security, Availability, Processing Integrity, Confidentiality, or Privacy (SOC 2 SM) - AICPA Guide

[idem]

Just finished: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, by Tom Stoppard

Currently reading: The Fall, by Albert Camus

[storm eyes]

The Silver Locusts - Ray Bradbury (First Edition that belonged to my father :nice: )

[Monte314]

On Wednesday I read Theory of Functions, by Knopp.

[fesoy]

Currently making my way through 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

[alt lit]

Well, now I'm reading Neruda, thanks to this happenstance (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.).

[Espadrille]

The Natural Superiority of Women, by Ashley Montagu, 5th edition.

[idem]

The Godfather, by Mario Puzo

[aok]

Long Hard Road Out Of Hell....Marilyn Manson's autobiography despite the fact that I don't listen to his music and never did

[Dancingqueen]

Sit Down and Shut Up: Punk Rock Commentaries on Buddha, God, Truth, Sex, Death, & Dogen's Treasury of the Right Dharma Eye
Brad Warner

[Nadette]

Sit Down and Shut Up: Punk Rock Commentaries on Buddha, God, Truth, Sex, Death, & Dogen's Treasury of the Right Dharma Eye
Brad Warner

Oh my goodness, I read "Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies, and the Truth about Reality" by the same author last summer. Laughably, I had no idea I was getting myself into a book about Buddhism. :D What do you think? Is the author not sooo ENFP?! :)

Ok, I'm currently reading "Atlas Shrugged". I didn't really want to as I have a lot of other things to read and it is crazy long, but a friend asked me to discuss it with her. This is irresistible. For some reason, I thought that it was written recently, but it was written 1957 (I think). It is ridiculous. Crazy Capitalism and crazy femininity.

[Rationality]

Mindful Universe by Henry Stapp

[Warrior]

The Last Full Measure

It's a book about warfare through history and what weapons, tactics, and other things were the deadliest hazards for soldiers (soldiers specifically - it is focused on land warfare).

[WillBrazil]

De Profundis, by Oscar Wilde.

The Soul of Man under Socialism, by Oscar Wilde

Ecce Homo, by Nietzsche

[Artio]

A Finnish book about herbs.

[idem]

Pale Fire, by Vladimir Nabokov

Such a weird book.

[Arex]

In Cold Blood - Truman Capote.

It's one of those books I've always meant to read and am just getting around to it.

[alt lit]

Flipping randomly through Neruda and Rumi at the moment.

Waiting for A Labyrinth of Kingdoms by Steve Kemper to arrive on Tuesday.

[Tito]

Mexico City: Architecture & Design
By Michelle Galindo

I'm not really reading in the normal sense, more like skimming through the book and reading/appreciating-the-photos of buildings I find rather interesting. Mexico City has a surprising number of interesting buildings!

[Metabeard]

"Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind" by Shunryu Suzuki

breezed through it, almost done. Trying to delve into eastern philosophies. I think making a pursuit of Zen a more central part of my life will give my life more meaning and give me more calm and happiness.

[Nothingradio]

the sequel to "Leviathan Wakes" and second book in the "Expanse" Series

its called "Calibans War", was just published in July. I highly recommended the series for some very good sci-fi reading.

Edit: Author is James A. Corey

[katatonic]

Just finished Animal Farm and He's Just Not That Into You . Currently reading 1984, Never Let Me Go by Ishhiguro, An Education by Barber and I started trying to read Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis but I forgot how much I can't stand his writing style.

I started reading The Help, but couldn't make it past the first page.

[Merle]

The Submission: a Novel - Amy Waldman... not really enjoying it.

Open City - Teju Cole

Undersea - Geoffrey Morrison - a cheap kindle SF book that is a nice distraction.

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I started trying to read Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis but I forgot how much I can't stand his writing style.



I can't stand him, but have to read Lunar Park in the next few weeks for comps... and then figure out a way to talk objectively about the little ninny.:irked:

[Bronze]

The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains - Nicholas Carr

[katatonic]

I can't stand him, but have to read Lunar Park in the next few weeks for comps... and then figure out a way to talk objectively about the little ninny.:irked:

I don't understand why he's written so many books. It's painful to try and read one. I've made it past the first few chapters of all of them and just give up because my brain is so confused.

[aok]

Kurt Cobain: Journals

[Diello]

Fiction: Book 3 of 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami - A great story, although rather long!

Non-Fiction: So Brilliantly Clever by Peter Graham - The first truly definitive account of the Parker/Hulme murder in NZ in the '50s.

[ModernLit]

i'm going to withhold my answer for fear of incriminating myself. i'm taking a trashy YA book break this week ;D

[Othesemo]

Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky

[Misanthropytron]

End This Depression Now - Paul Krugman
Not the best of reads, failed to be informative above the basic level. Author speaks to the layman in a tone that, while most perceive as personable, I find childish and shallow.

[PugC]

The Claw of the Conciliator by Gene Wolfe. It has been on my reading list for years, but I finally got around to reading it

[Nietzsche]

The Philosophy of Spinoza: Unfolding the Latent Processes of His Reasoning by Harry Austryn Wolfson.

[idem]

Finished Absalom, Absalom!. It was pretty fantastic. Faulkner :heart:

Now reading The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. Le Guin.

[TheStranger]

Kindred of the East, it has four different authors, the names of which I don't feel like typing out.

[Bronze]

Ignorance: How It Drives Science - Stuart Firestein

[Apex]

Fountain Head by Ayn Rand
-not really a fan of Ayn Rand as a writer of a philosopher; although this book is one of her best
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
-a real account murder story, that is very intriguing

[Warrior]

The Code of the Warrior

It's a book I have had for a while and decided to read again. It discusses warrior codes in several societies throughout history, the reasons for them, what they are and what they are not, and the similarities between them.

[angelina]

The Power Of Now

[Bronte]

"The Night Circus," by Erin Morgenstern

[idem]

Just finished Going Postal, by Terry Pratchett

Currently reading One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey

[RedLeader]

Graham Hancock - Fingerprints of the Gods: The Quest Continues

[LuckyBastard]

What Money Can't Buy by Michael J. Sandel

[idem]

Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys

[Huruma]

The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice

[WillBrazil]

The Age of Reason, by Sartre.

The Sorrows of Young Werther, by Goethe.

[frankjr]

"Setting up your computer", (Gabriel Torres)

/* I translated the title cause it is a brazilian book */

[idem]

Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides

[Bardas]

Sharps, by K.J. Parker. Her newest novel, and it completes my collection of all 15 of her works. Ahhh, such a good feeling seeing all of it in a row.


The Age of Reason, by Sartre.

Reading Nausea next.

[Othesemo]

Sun Tzu's The Art of War

[WillBrazil]

Beyond Good and Evil, by Nietzsche.

[Merle]

Re-reading The Condition of Postmodernity: an Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change by David Harvey.

[TheStranger]

Biological Psychology by James W. Kalat. We'll see how it addresses the "hard problem".

[MortalWombat]

Deaf Again by Mark Drolsbaugh

[SelfMadeBum]

Tommyknockers - Stephen King.

It's my toilet book so I've been at it quite a few months now.

[Warrior]

I took a break from the last book i mentioned to read Killing Lincoln. It was given to me last week while I was on vacation.

Like it sounds, it is about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

[Othesemo]

Twilight of the Idols, by Nietzsche.

[Imperator]

I'm still reading War and Peace.
Thought I'd be done by now.

I lost a lot of reading time with packing and moving, lost time with studying.
That, and the fucker's 1400 pages....

[Espadrille]

The Shack, William Young

[WillBrazil]

Phaedo, by Plato.

[Merle]

The Luzhin Defence (or just The Defence...) - Nabokov

Not sure how I am only just getting around to reading this. Nabokov is one of my favourite writers, but I've not read too much of his work prior to his writing in English. I'm taking a Nabokov seminar in the fall and so am working my way through the earlier novels, starting here. I've only just started, but, mmmmn, it's delicious.

[Dancingqueen]

Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the lost city one step at a time.
Mark Adams
meh

[Rationality]

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

[Hugh]

The Dark Tower-Stephan King , The Structure of scientific revolution-Thomas.S.Kuhn

[Arthur Dent]

Atlas of Air Warfare, by Malcolm and Alexander Swanston

[Othesemo]

The Anti-Christ, by Nietzsche.

[db1]

The Process by F. Kafka.

[Moraycity]

The Eerie Silence by Paul Davies. Insightful popularized science is my guilty pleasure.

[envirodude]

The Power of Now, by Tolle (on recommendation)

[idem]

Just finished: Feast for Crows, by George R. R. Martin
The Color Purple, by Alice Walker

Currently reading: Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro